Our English Villages Their Story And Their Antiquities
Our English Villages Their Story And Their Antiquities
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Another method of trying supposed criminals happily does not remain, and that was, the trial by ordeal of water and iron. This was considered an appeal to God, and was conducted in the church. If your church is a Saxon one, some such scene as I am about to describe probably took place there. The procedure of the water ordeal was as follows : — The accused spent three days in fasting and prayer, and was directed to take an oath that he was guiltless. He received the Holy Communion, at which the ...priest said to him, " May this Body and Blood of Christ be to thee a proof of innocence this day. " Then a fire was kindled under a caldron in a remote part of the church, and when the water boiled, the accused plunged his hand into it and took out a stone placed at the bottom of the vessel. His scalded hand and arm were bound up by the priest, and ex- amined again in three days. If the flesh was then healed, the accused was considered innocent. The iron ordeal was much the same, only the accused was required to carry a bar of red-hot iron three or nine feet, and afterwards the burn was examined as before, and the prisoner judged accordingly.
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Another method of trying supposed criminals happily does not remain, and that was, the trial by ordeal of water and iron. This was considered an appeal to God, and was conducted in the church. If your church is a Saxon one, some such scene as I am about to describe probably took place there. The procedure of the water ordeal was as follows : — The accused spent three days in fasting and prayer, and was directed to take an oath that he was guiltless. He received the Holy Communion, at which the ...priest said to him, " May this Body and Blood of Christ be to thee a proof of innocence this day. " Then a fire was kindled under a caldron in a remote part of the church, and when the water boiled, the accused plunged his hand into it and took out a stone placed at the bottom of the vessel. His scalded hand and arm were bound up by the priest, and ex- amined again in three days. If the flesh was then healed, the accused was considered innocent. The iron ordeal was much the same, only the accused was required to carry a bar of red-hot iron three or nine feet, and afterwards the burn was examined as before, and the prisoner judged accordingly.
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